288 ARRIVAL AT KILIMANE. 



Tete a slave. In Senna there is neither priest nor school ; there 

 are the ruins of churches and convents, but such ruins are a 

 solemn mockery of the ignorance and sin whose blight rests on 

 everything. 



It was the 11th of May before Dr. Livingstone continued his 

 journey. Forty miles below Senna he passed the confluence of 

 the Shire, which we shall have occasion to mention hereafter. 

 Below the Shire the hilly surroundings gave place'to extensive 

 flats. There was no incident of special importance until Mazaro 

 was reached. At that point the delta begins. The Zambesi 

 had nowhere appeared more splendid, and the temptation was 

 very strong to follow it down to the sea; but Livingstone knew 

 that it had been explored that far up by another in whose state- 

 ments he had confidence, and he therefore felt that it was better 

 for him to follow the other branch, although it was necessary to 

 leave the boats and canoes. A sudden fever had set in, as if 

 determined to give him a farewell embrace. With throbbing 

 veins and aching temples he toiled on afoot along the banks of 

 the Mutu. The fever continued raging, and the large sailing 

 launch which was put at his service by Senor Asevedo, at Iu- 

 terra, was felt to be truly a godsend. The village of Kilimane 

 was reached on the 20th of May, 1856, and Dr. Livingstone 

 was received most cordially into the home of Colonel Galdino 

 Jose Nunes, " one of the best men in the country." 



It had been sixteen years since the missionary first landed at 

 the Cape. He had spent nine of ten years in patient work, 

 teaching and dispensing the gospel of Christ. Then providence 

 had unsettled him and he could find no rest for his foot. Six 

 years he had spent exploring the unknown wilds. He had 

 done the work of an explorer under the inspiration of the gos- 

 pel. " As far as I am myself concerned," says he, " the opening 

 of the new central country is a matter for congratulation only 

 in so far as it opens up a prospect for the elevation of the inhab- 

 itants. As I have elsewhere remarked, I view the end of the 

 geographical feat as the beginning of the missionary enterprise. 

 I take the latter term in its most extended signification, and 

 include every effort made for the amelioration of our race, the 

 promotion of all those means by which God in his providence 

 is working, and bringing all his dealings with man to a glorious 



